Best Travel Hashtags for Instagram 2018

It’s 2018 and everyone and their mom is trying to grow their social media accounts, more specifically Instagram, and using tags and hashtags is a vital step that is part of the process.

Using tags allows your photos to show up in the tagged section of the Instagram pages you tagged, in hopes that when tagged pages and people who are looking for relevant content they can stumble upon and engage with your photos. Hashtags allow Instagram pages you’ve tagged to have permission to re-post your photos on their page and it increases your chances of Instagram pages seeing your posts.

With the ever changing Instagram algorithms it can be hard to stay on top of things and know what hashtags are still relevant. First, using up to 30 hashtags in the comments would suffice but now they must be in the caption and you should use a recommended 5-10 hashtags, so Instagram doesn’t view your post as spam and ghost them. In addition, the hashtags you use for each photo should be different or else Instagram may view your page as spam.

The photos I post on my Instagram are a combination of travel, fashion and digital media and they each require different tags and hashtags to have the right people potentially see my content.

For this post I’m going to focus on travel hashtags on Instagram, so it can be a mega list and it’s up to you to figure out which set if best for your travel niche

The rule of thumb for hashtags is to use a mix of large feature accounts, general travel hashtags, and ones specific to your photo.

Over the past year I’ve been using a series of travel hashtags that I’ve compiled from various articles and seeing what other Instagram users in the same niche are using to tag and hashtag their photos.